Valerie Harper, star of Rhoda and Dancing with the Stars participant, has cancer. In January of last year, doctors told her that her lung cancer had progressed to her brain and that she had months to live. As a result of this updated diagnosis, she dropped out of the Broadway production she had contractually agreed to perform in, Looped.
Harper sued for payment even though she had dropped out. The playwright, Lombardo, has filed a counterclaim in the amount of $2 million: $500,000 in lost revenue, and an additional $1.5 million because she knowingly withheld the information that she had cancer.
The best source I've found:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.1770673
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So, the Americans with Disabilities Act makes it pretty clear that you can't discriminate based on health concerns like cancer. I'm not sure why Lombardo thinks Harper was required to disclose her ill health.
Suing an elderly woman with cancer is not a good way to make friends, that's for sure. The move is not being received favorably.
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